9 sentences with “mystical”

The smell of incense enveloped him in a mystical aura.

The sky is a mystical place full of stars, stars, and galaxies.

Medieval alchemists such as Berzelius, Roger Bacon and others kept mentioning that their knowledge came from Atlantis and its mystical legacy.

Loyola wrote a book, the Spiritual Exercises, which encouraged a mystical veneration of the Church and unconditional devotion to its institutions.

The Safavids were a clan of Sufi (Islamic mystical) peers, masters or spiritual leaders, who were also capable of military and political organisation.

Tsar Nicholas I was far less mystical than his brother had been, but he was equally adamant in his opposition to any loosening of the Russian social order.

The appeal to a mystical, millennia-old identity helped unite the fractious Turkic tribes and Ismail was able to bring all of Persia under his rule in a short time.

The themes of their Russian art dealt both with the thorny political issues of their time and with a kind of ongoing spiritual quest to understand the Russian 'soul', something usually identified with both nature and the mystical qualities of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In contrast to the austerity and even harshness of Lutheranism and (especially) Calvinism, the Catholic Church came to offer a mystical and emotional form of both worship and religious experience that was very attractive to many who might originally have been alienated from the institution.